Commentary in italics by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] For those who don't know what an FPV drone is.
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We have every chance to miss the "fpv-revolution" in military affairs, and then make a helpless gesture, looking for the guilty and pointing fingers at each other. But fortunately, we have a civil society and volunteers, I think we will first stretch out at the expense of their energy, and then they will move the heavy gears of the state machine to spin in the right direction.
By the way, not a fictional story. A young officer asks his superiors to send fighters to train fpv pilots. The senior authorities blink their eyes and ask, why study there? Still, it’s simple, show on the spot where and where to press the buttons and don’t be distracted by trifles, that is, training.
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Older Edda once again writes ( https://t.me/vysokygovorit/10981) about the lack of understanding by military officials of the importance of UAVs and FPV drones. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Unfortunately, the understanding of the importance of drones is still very superficial - especially when it comes to staff members from lieutenant colonel and above.
At the very least, the Russian Federation managed to bring to the level of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief the importance of unmanned aircraft as such for the front. Understood, accepted.
And then it began.
Now the troops - in the person of performers, operators and persons who have to solve problems on the ground - are faced with the inflexible stupidity of individual commanders. It is difficult to characterize such an approach in another way.
In the Dnepr grouping, it came to the point that from the higher headquarters they set the task of reporting in writing on the number of takeoffs of quadrocopters for accounting. We, really, do not know what this is connected with, but under the commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Teplinsky, there was no such absurdity.
In the Kherson direction, the copter - delivered by volunteers (!) - is perceived as know-how and a means of video and photo fixation of the front edge. It comes to the point of absurdity: it is necessary to film the position of the enemy, who is deploying a gun in the direction of our troops, report to the higher headquarters and wait for the command to return fire. During this time, according to our observation posts, the enemy not only has time to work out, but also to turn off the gun and get out of the firing position.
Are you talking about FPV drones?
Until military officials learn that any drone is, first of all, a consumable that must be used in accordance with military skill, ingenuity and expediency as decided by commanders on the ground - about any training on FPV drones or the mass purchase of commercial drones for the troops through the Russian Ministry of Defense is out of the question.
Everything rests on public initiatives - and even then on the principle of "not thanks, but in spite of."
Somehow, on one of the broadcasts, the idea was already voiced: it’s time to deploy robotics classes in schools so that young people from an early age learn to assemble drones and fly them. It's time to hold centralized drone piloting competitions - within the same DOSAAF clubs and military-patriotic events of the Yunarmiya.
Disassembly/assembly of the AK-74 is, of course, cool. But in the current realities, piloting drones - and treating the drone as a modern analogue of the AK-74 - should become a normal, adequate skill.
(с) @rybar
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In FPV flying ( https://t.me/vysokygovorit/10981 ) the most important thing is to develop stable drone control skills. The difficulty lies in the fact that, unlike the "mavic", electronics do not help you. The position of the quadrocopter in space is controlled only by the operator with his fingers. And I feel it is as difficult as flying a helicopter.
It took me 2 months to fly in the simulator for 2 hours every day for my first FPV flight. And even after such preparation, you will certainly crash your first drone against the wall. It happens to all pilots without exception.
So if we want to see an armada of fpv drones in 2 months, then now we need to massively purchase TBS Tango 2 remote controls (25 thousand apiece), install LiftOFF simulators on computers and put capable young guys behind cars.
Even if the government buys a million FPV drones tomorrow, we simply won't have pilots to fly them. This problem must be solved now. Little finance is needed for this. Pilot training classes can be opened in any room where there is Internet and electricity. So what are we waiting for? The question is rather rhetorical.
(c) Alexander Kharchenko
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It's hard to disagree here.More FPV drones needed. Multiple. This applies to both the supply of troops. and their production in the country.
Further deployment of public and private pilot training schools is needed. Ideally, if based on DOSAAF.
The time between receiving information from the drone and opening fire on the identified target should be as short as possible.
It is necessary to intensively introduce tactics to counter enemy FPV drones.
In the second half of the 20s, FPV drones will already be part of the UAV swarm system on the battlefield. The war in Ukraine will only accelerate this process.
The state is now making serious efforts to increase production and training, but the situation requires even greater volumes and intensity of work.